run to

Hurry toward someone

Run to indicates movement toward something, often for help or refuge: She always runs to her mother when she's upset.

It can suggest a tendency or habit: His taste runs to the exotic.

Run to also indicates reaching a quantity or extent: The bill ran to several hundred dollars, The manuscript runs to eight hundred pages.

Related

grow · stretch · span · petition · consult · rely · seek · depend · trust · fall back on · become · rush · flee · plead · resort · lean · scramble · hasten

Opposites
direction of movement

run torun off

Depart suddenly or duplicate

seeking vs. avoiding

run toavoid

Stay away from

shun · evade · shy away from · go it alone · fend for oneself

quantity/amount (idiomatic)

run tocome under

Be subjected to

fall below

Family

run, runner, to, running, runs, ran, outrun, rundown, rerun

Familiarity
Top 20,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Everyday, not technical · Rated G